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Storage Protect Family

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Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

No direct option for secondary copy to cloud and no immutable copy feature

Spectrum Protect Integrating with the cloud for a secondary copy streamlines backups, eliminating the need for an another on-premises backup server. This approach offers cost efficiency, scalability, remote accessibility, redundancy, automated man...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add SP Server logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX

Currently, logging to SYSLOG is only available on Linux. To properly integrate SP into SIEM/QRadar, it is essential to have logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX, too.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Certification trust

Trust certificates trusted by OS - get rid of own local cert db. If we replace certificate on SP-server it should just work, as long as it is a global trusted certificate.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Easy R/W failover for a replicated node

In a ISP environment using the Node Replication feature, the R/O client failover is automated since version 7.1.1 of the ISP server. It works fine, but allows only the restore or retrieve of objects.If the source server is unavailable for a longer...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP to backup resources (metadata) from Kubernetes, not only pv, by namespaces

We need support for backup of a namespace being not only able to backup and restore PV but also secrets, ConfigMaps, deployments, routes, services. of a Kubernetes namespace
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

IBM Redbooks for IBM Spectrum Protect / IBM SpectrumProtect Plus

There are no longer IBM Redbooks for this product available. The education budget was shrinked and the Admin Guide was removed. Where should customers get information how to work with this product
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Provide vCenter Plugin for Spectrum Protect Plus

ISPP is completely missing a vCenter plugin like ISP for VE. This is usually used by VMWare administrators and VM users to trigger ad hoc backups and restores by themselves. As ISPP is missing this plugin, this is not possible when moving from ISP...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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